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How to Save Big Your Mobile Phone Bill

While I Was Using the MasterCard Contactless Merchant Tool, I Found Several AT&T and T-Mobile Stores in Austin Which Accept Contactless Payments

So I did some digging and spoke with an AT&T corporate representative as well as my local AT&T and T-Mobile stores. They said AT&T and T-Mobile are rolling out NFC terminals to stores around the country, but it’s not available everywhere yet.

The AT&T Store Near Me Accepts Apple Pay, Does Yours?

Use the MasterCard tools for a local AT&T or T-Mobile store. If you find 1, it’s worth dropping by to see if you can pay your bill in-store with Apple Pay and your Discover it or Discover it Miles card, to save up to 22% or earn 23X miles on your cell phone bill!

And if you want to get the most of this deal before it expires on December 31, 2015, you could ask to prepay several months in advance. Or pay wireless bills for friends and family and have them reimburse you.

Or Earn 22% Back on Your iPhone Purchase!

The representative I spoke to at AT&T said you could sign-up for a new iPhone 6 or 6s (the newer phones that support Apple Pay) and only pay the tax in-store. The balance is added to your AT&T account, which you can pay off in 12, 18, or 24 months.

But you can pay the entire balance off after your 1st billing cycle with the new phone.

So in theory, you could sign-up for a new phone, install Apple Pay and add your Discover card, then pay the phone off at the AT&T store after your 1st bill comes in and get 22% off the purchase price (before December 31, 2015).

I have NOT tried this myself. But the representative said he didn’t see why it wouldn’t work.

I haven’t tried this myself, but let me know in the comments if it works for you!

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As of a few days ago, T-Mobile still hasn’t updated the software their Apple Pay uses, so even though they accept Apple Pay, and they accept discover cards, their Apple Pay won’t accept discover cards. (They haven’t updated since prior to September 16, when Apple rolled out the software to use discover with Apple Pay). Hopefully they’ll get this fixed soon, but everyone I’ve talked to at corporate is clueless and doesn’t know when if ever they will be updating their software 🙁

When I tried to refill in AT&T store I had to pay the tax, at least in WA state. So I paid $109 for an $100 refill. They didn’t charge tax for in-store refill but started charging tax since sometime in this year.

I’ve been trying to do this since the AP promo started, but as of yesterday, even though AT&T stores accept AP/NFC with any other card, it is not working with Discover – much like Macy’s and Whole Foods wasn’t working early on. (Both are now fixed.)

Went to an AT&T Wireless corporate today. Tried to do the transaction. Even though their payment terminal accepts ApplePay (identical to the picture you supplied), the transaction was declined. Discover sent me a fraud alert text message and an email. I replied via text to validate the transaction. I got a text response saying that the Discover card was ready for use. However when attempting the transaction again, the AT&T clerk got the same message a second time, transaction declined. So it looks like a no go at the moment. The clerk said that other people have been coming in to the store trying to make payments with ApplePay and the Discover card and same problem. Maybe Discover has this “purposely broken”.

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